Saturday, January 23, 2010

The Toronto anti-prorogation rally was a success in my opinion. I estimate that there were about 5,000 to 10,000 in attendance. All of Dundas Square was filled with participants.

Maclean's has a photo montage of the event in Toronto on one of its blogs. Included is a photo of a homemade sign about "electoral dysfunction" that I stapled. Note: I did not design the poster. Thanks to Fair Vote Canada for the design.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

There will be anti-prorogation rallies taking place in many cities across Canada next Saturday. Some rallies may be shown live in part or whole on the Canadian news channels. I wonder if Stephen Harper will hold some kind of news conference at 1 p.m. on Saturday just so that the television news media won't air the rallies live. I wonder if the media may fall for such a Harper trap.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

The silencing of the House of Commons enables Harper to dodge a parliamentary committee’s probe into his government’s stifling of bad news from the Afghan war, specifically red flags sent up by a senior Foreign Affairs official regarding the abuse of battlefield prisoners handed over by Canadian troops to Afghan authorities.

In truth, there has been an unwritten fatwa maintained by the Prime Minister’s Office against discussion of any and all controversial aspects of the Afghan debacle, as evidenced by the PMO’s consistent refusal to comment on the investigations reported here since Skyreporter went on line in March, 2007.

An overstretched army, supported by a weary home front, against an ill-defined enemy, does not offer a viable strategy for success. Better to tell people that the enemy is radical Islam, which wants to spread its religion using the sword, and that defeat would mean an end to Western values of pluralism, minority rights and democracy.

Today was the first time I’ve time I read one of the Toronto Star’s newest contributors and I gave my head a sad shake. (see column here)

Ezra Levant, known as Ezzy to the on-line blogger community, is now getting his anti-Ignatieff/Liberal ramblings published in the only decent newspaper in Canada and you have to wonder what editorial page editor Ian Urquhart is thinking. Is this his way of trying to make the paper diverse? Well, we already have future conservative fascist wacko extremist Antonia Zerbisias for that, so I’m thinking this is just an attempt at trying to inject some controversy and reactions from readers such as me.